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Feasting is not only a way to meet physical and emotional needs. It’s also a powerful tool for making disciples.
Modeling our faith becomes mentoring a heart when we consistently pour into our child by talking openly, listening intently, praying together, and steeping in Scripture side by side.
Education is not about enacting a prescriptive, boxed sort of curriculum-based classroom, but instead is about passing on a legacy of a love for learning, an independent joy in discovery, a motivation to bring light, beauty, and goodness back into the world.
Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning (2020)
As I look back on the years of mothering my own four children to adulthood, I am more convinced than ever that God created us to be lovers, teachers, spiritual directors, friends, and so much more to our children.
Mom Heart Moments: Daily Devotions For Lifegiving Motherhood (2019)
All those moments in our lives—and in our children's lives—become eternally meaningful as we live out the reality of the ministry of motherhood. In so doing, we truly give our children an eternal gift—the gift of knowing and following the Lord who gives us everything.
What kind of legacy do you want to leave? What life messages are worth living and dying for? You have a God-sized story to tell, a destiny to live into! Yet you must choose to take a step of faith toward Him. Now is the time; today is the day. Own your life.
All beautiful, rich, or famous people still grow old and sick and eventually die. Yet the choices that all people (perhaps especially mothers!) make as they journey through the seasons of life will determine whether their life's messages will have an eternal impact after they are gone, or fade with time and be forgotten.
Seasons of a Mother's Heart: Heart-to-Heart Encouragement for Homeschooling Moms (2009)
I wanted to be as a child, delighting in life, at peace with God, living in the grace of the moment. I wanted to live above the pull of depression and cultivate a heart of joy from which others could draw. I wanted to learn what it really meant to be filled with the reality of God, the love of God, and the joy of God every day, no matter what else was going on in my life.